Widows & Orphans' Beneficiary Ass'n v. Powers

Garnett, JP. J.

At the threshold of this case we are confronted with the point that the paper copied into the record, and described by the clerk of the court below as a bill of exceptions, is not under seal. The name of the judge before whom the case was tried is attached at the proper place for his signature, and we have no doubt his name was written there on the original document, by himself; otherwise the clerk would not have inserted a copy of the paper in the record. The four letters, “s-e-a-1,” ' with a scrawl drawn around them, were for some reason omitted, and that omission,…